It will be difficult having to follow the Road to the Final Four and the Road to Omaha at the same time, but that's a burden I must bear. My body is ready.
Spoiler: D1Baseball's Projected Field of 64: Preseason 2020 LOUISVILLE DURHAM 1 Louisville* (1) 1 Duke (16) 4 Quinnipiac* 4 Norfolk State* 3 Missouri State 3 Coastal Carolina* 2 Minnesota 2 East Carolina* NASHVILLE STANFORD 1 Vanderbilt* (2) 1 Stanford (15) 4 Jackson State* 4 Sacramento State* 3 UNC Wilmington* 3 Gonzaga* 2 Virginia 2 Texas A&M CORAL GABLES LOS ANGELES 1 Miami (3) 1 UCLA (14) 4 Pennsylvania* 4 Kent State* 3 Florida Atlantic 3 Cal State Fullerton* 2 South Carolina 2 TCU GAINESVILLE BATON ROUGE 1 Florida (4) 1 LSU (13) 4 Florida Gulf Coast* 4 Seton Hall* 3 Campbell* 3 Houston 2 Georgia Tech 2 Oklahoma LUBBOCK ANN ARBOR 1 Texas Tech* (5) 1 Michigan* (12) 4 Oral Roberts* 4 Wright State* 3 Sam Houston State 3 Oregon State 2 Arizona 2 Wake Forest ATHENS STARKVILLE 1 Georgia (6) 1 Mississippi State (11) 4 Samford* 4 Jacksonville State* 3 Ohio State 3 Southern Miss 2 NC State 2 North Carolina PHOENIX TALLAHASSEE 1 Arizona State* (7) 1 Florida State (10) 4 Binghamton* 4 Bryant* 3 San Diego State 3 South Alabama 2 Oklahoma State 2 Ole Miss FAYETTEVILLE AUBURN 1 Arkansas (8) 1 Auburn (9) 4 Army* 4 Fordham* 3 Clemson 3 Indiana* 2 Dallas Baptist* 2. Texas Projected automatic bids indicated by *
lol so the people at FanGraphs and within pro baseball apparently don't think too highly of UVA's pitcher development: Too Cavalier What is so hypnotic about the University of Virginia that it’s causing young players to cede one of their (maybe) two chances to be paid well before they reach the majors? For years, highly-regarded high school prospects have, in essence, made themselves unavailable for selection after their senior season, either by withdrawing from draft eligibility or by pricing themselves out of selection with a bonus ask teams aren’t willing to meet, in order to be Cavaliers. Many of these prospects have been pitchers, two high-profile examples of which have come in the last two years in right hander Mike Vasil, now a sophomore, and lefty Nate Savino, who graduated from high school early to enroll at Virginia last month. Savino had a shot to go in the first round this June, or could have been someone’s over-slot pick later than that, like Matthew Allan was for the Mets last year; if neither scenario materialized, he could have then matriculated to Charlottesville. Now he doesn’t have that option. It’s possible that Savino will be a top 10 pick in three years. Teams’ past behavior has indicated they’re more confident picking college arms than they are high schoolers. But it’s not as if the University of Virginia is good at developing pitchers. Nathan Kirby, Nick Howard, Connor Jones, Danny Hultzen, and Branden Kline have all either gotten worse or had injury issues or stuff fluctuation, or some combination of the three. Only current Royals lefty Daniel Lynch, who was famously resistant to the coaches during his breakout junior year, got better during his time in college. Now former top 2021 high school prospect Nick Bitsko, a Pennsylvania righty and UVA commit, has reclassified as a 2020 with an eye on going to college a year early. While I can’t climb inside the mind of elite teenage athlete or his family, and while I acknowledge many things to be much more important than money — Virginia is a fine academic institution, Charlottesville has a cute downtown with lots of exposed brick, the Paramount Theater is gorgeous — I’m perplexed by the seemingly annual decision for one of them to punt on their senior season draft opportunity, let alone to do so to go to a school that is famously bad at developing pitchers. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/updating-the-2020-2021-and-2022-draft-rankings/
Get one from Louisville this weekend and I’ll consider it a success. Win 2 and I’ll drink a non craft beer to celebrate. Win all 3 and I’ll Venmo bertwing $5 Lose all 3 and he has to Venmo me $15 so I can drown my sorrows in fancy craft beer. Deal? Deal.
is dallas baptist gonna be good this year? i know they usually are and that’s the highlight of our non con
Should be a rebound year for Florida, it's our last season at our shitty stadium before we move to a new $65 million one.
Got dang. Did Luca get hurt again already? Just saw a tweet that said he had a fractured right elbow.
Conner Noland with 11K through 6 and just 1 H allowed. Looks good so far Will Klein (#1 prospect in the OVC) looked good for a few innings before giving up a couple HR’s and hitting 95 pitches mid way through the 6th. Hit 97mph several times
Yeah they’re gonna cook his arm. This was EIU’s first time playing outside and wearing cleats since last year. Hogs win 5-1. Only run was on a Casey Martin error not this shit again
Hey I wanna see them shirtless as much as anyone but let’s try and keep the horniness in here to a minimum it’s only day 1
Me killerwvu and 304 others are watching a soundless wvu Jacksonville state baseball game through the backstop netting with cameras that don’t move It’s good to be back boys
Tyler Martin (Mike Martin Jr. son) got the first hit if Mike Martin's season, via beating out a sacrifice bunt. That sums up the Martin family to a T.
Nebraska has batted around with no outs so far in the top of the first. 6-0 bases loaded. Baylor already pulling starter.
Fsu about to lose to Niagra. Blew a 1 run lead in the 9th by walks. Really really poor showing from fsu and managing by fsu. Two hits were bunts
Yep, incrediblely frustrating. Even our good hitters from last year look lost and nothing has changed. Not sure fsu is a .500 team at this point. Just hope it was a fluke.